I have learned not to overlook the advantages of being me. From when I was a softball player, and I held the stolen bases record.
AIMEE MULLINSI’m not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can’t possibly speak for a diverse group of people.
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Everyone is really afraid of getting out there and not being good. That’s the challenge:
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Half of Hollywood has more prosthetic in their body than I do, but we don’t think of them as disabled.
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I don’t know what it’s like to be an arm amputee, or have even one flesh-and-bone leg, or to have cerebral palsy.
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The best beauty secret, besides sleep and plenty of water, is do whatever it is – before you go out, before you need to feel beautiful – do whatever makes you feel confident.
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I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.
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When I’m curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I’ve really explored it, I’m OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.
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The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me – my mother’s side of the family have awful legs.
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In athletics, the idea of possibility is presumed. It’s not ‘if;’ it’s ‘how.’
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If it’s putting on a great dance record and rocking out in your apartment, do it. If kissing someone for 10 minutes makes you feel confident, do it.
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that’s not the case.
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In sports, I refused to do any interviews that were just going to become human-interest stories. Don’t turn me into a tragic heroine.
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The idea of prosthetics is a tool. Most people’s cell phones are prosthetics. If you leave your cell phone at home.
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I think that everyone has something about themselves that they feel is their weakness… their ‘disability.’
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Adversity is just change that we haven’t adapted ourselves to yet.
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Ups and downs are a constant in life, and I’ve been belted into that roller coaster a thousand times.
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